Category Archives: WJBC's Top Stories
Home Sweet Home serving Christmas Day meals
Home Sweet Home has served about 110,000 meals during 2015. (Photo by Adam Studzinski/WJBC) By Adam Studzinski BLOOMINGTON – Home Sweet Home Ministries continues its Christmas Day meal tradition...
Dec 25, 2015
Salvation Army meets its goal for red kettle campaign this season
(WJBC file photo) By Joe Ragusa BLOOMINGTON – The Salvation Army of McLean County has surpassed its goal for this year’s Red Kettle campaign with some time still left to go. Spokeswoman An...
Dec 24, 2015
AG Madigan: Daily gambling sites are illegal
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has issued an opinion declaring that illegal gambling occurs when someone “plays a game of chance or skill for money.” (Photo courtesy Facebook/Lisa ...
Dec 24, 2015
Metro unemployment highlights manufacturing losses
Illinois’ unemployment rate dropped to 5.7 percent in November. (Photo courtesy Facebook/Illinois Department of Employment Security)By Illinois News NetworkSPRINGFIELD – Twelve of the stat...
Dec 24, 2015
Advocate BroMenn receives $4 million bequest from local man’s estate
The gift is the largest in the hospital’s history. (WJBC file photo) By Adam Studzinski NORMAL – Christmas arrived a little early for Advocate BroMenn Medical Center. The hospital has rece...
Dec 23, 2015
Anonymous donor drops ten $100 bills in Salvation Army red kettle
(WJBC file photo) By Joe Ragusa NORMAL – The Salvation Army of McLean County received $1,000 from a single donor Tuesday in one of its red kettles. Salvation Army spokeswoman Angie Fulton said t...
Dec 23, 2015
New Year rings in 237 new laws in Illinois
State Rep. Dan Brady said a new measure will help streamline homicide investigations.(WJBC file photo) By Eric Stock SPRINGFIELD – State lawmakers didn’t pass a budget this year, but they ...
Dec 23, 2015
New license required to sell cigarettes in Illinois
(Photo courtesy Flickr/uzi978) By John Gregory/Illinois Radio Network SPRINGFIELD – Selling tobacco products will now require a license from the state. Beginning January 1, any retailer selling ...
Dec 23, 2015
Top Stories of 2015: Schock resigns
U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock resigned in March amid a federal investigation. (WJBC file photo) By Eric Stock PEORIA – There was a rare special election this year to fill a vacancy in Washington after ...
Dec 23, 2015
Several criminal justice reforms take effect Jan. 1
(WJBC file photo)By John Gregory/Illinois Radio NetworkSPRINGFIELD – Changes to the criminal justice system and policing are what one lawmaker calls one of the few bright spots from legislative ...
Dec 22, 2015
